Look Both Ways

The street we live in aligns almost east-west, and looking downhill (towards the west) is where our weather usually comes from. If we get storms from the east (uphill) it's usually bad news, because they always seem more destructive.*

On Monday we had a serious storm warning. Looking up the road we had this:

And looking down the road, this:

Both photos were taken at 17:28 on Monday.

Our massive destructive storm with hail turned out to be 10 minutes of rain. Not that everyone escaped - there have been some very heavy localised storms. It may look like we're currently weather fixated and there's a reason for that: we are currently weather fixated. I cant remember a year quite like it,


*Not scientific, just a casual observation over 16 years